Why can't I access my ISP's resources, such as their mail and news servers on my RO318?
If the servers have simple names like 'mail' or 'news', the problem may be that the ISP's domain suffix is not being added to these names before DNS lookup. Add your ISP's domain suffix as Domain Name in the RO318's System menu.
In addition, the ISP may be looking for a particular host name for your account, in which case you should enter the host name as the System Name in the RO318's System menu.
Example: Consider the following account with the ISP "earthlink.net".
1. Host Name: C-223344-A
2. Domain Name: www.earthlink.net Mail Server mail
Although the ISP lists the name of their mail server as 'mail', the fully expanded name is actually: mail.earthlink.net
If the ISP automatically provides the domain suffix to your router, the router will append the domain suffix to DNS requests. If not, you can try one of these methods:
1. In each application (such as mail client or news reader), list the fully expanded server name,
2. Manually configure DNS parameters in the network settings of each of your PCs, and enter the domain suffix manually.
Not sure what you want to do here. You have a Windows 2003 Domain and you want to configure another one? As far as I know you can't run more than on domain on the same hardware unless you are using virtual machines. So you just get a new machine and during the install process you select the option to start a new domain. Some of this stuff is a little complex but Microsoft have great articles that describe the step by step process of creating and managing multiple domains. Do some searching on Microsoft's web site.
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